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About my informations is this event this year in Liberec (Tipsportarena). Have a look at www.svenskaishockeyförbündet.se - Landlag - Tre Kronor - Spelprogramm Season 2008/2009 - you can read the event is in Liebrec.

Actually, when I started this thread in January the venue hadn't been decided. It was however clear that the Czech federation (and the sponsor BPA Sport Marketing) had wanted that the Ceska Pojistovna Cup should not take place at Liberec. Karlovy Vary was mentioned, but I guess their new arena is not ready yet. The Czech federation has therefore looked to Prague or Ceske Budejovice. Around the LG Games, the Czech federation discussed the matter with the other participating federation. It was then announced that the tournament would take place after all at Liberec.

On a more important note, the tournament is no longer called Ceska Pojistovna Cup. The reason is that the Czech Federation's contract with the Czech insurance company has expired. So from now on, the tournament is called Czech Hockey Games

The title of the thread has thus been changed. (new logo will be added when it becomes available)

Gleb, I believe the reason is very low attendance on Thursday (1st game day) to the game not involving the host nation. Each season, each country has a home game outside the tournament they host - planned in advance.

Update 15.4.09: C Tommi Santala has been added to the Czech Hockey Games roster, according to FIHA. It is still undisclosed if any players from JYP or Kärpät will be added as well due to the surprisingly quick finish of the SM-liiga finals.

Update 2: Apparently this is the final EHT roster, according to Head Coach Jukka Jalonen. The need to call in any players from JYP or Kärpät for the World Championships will be evaluated after the performances of players in the Czech Hockey Games.

None of the players were late. The article says that some players didn't have time to have a nap (presumabely after morning practice) due to the game starting a bit early. And this affected their readiness to be at their briskest at the start of the game. That's all.

Russia was a lot sharper until the third period where Sweden staged a great comeback. They were closed to tying the game until Aleksander Radulov outmaneuvred Lars Jonsson behind the Swedish net and then made another smart move by turning 270 degrees while firing a hard shot, 5-3. Russia quickly scored another, and then the game was effectively over.

In total, Russia won 10 games out of 12 in the 2008-09 Euro Hockey Tour; I believe only Canada can stop them from winning the gold again.

In total, Russia won 10 games out of 12 in the 2008-09 Euro Hockey Tour; I believe only Canada can stop them from winning the gold again.

The World Championship will be a diffrent story, Sweden will be a countender this year to but Canada ans Russia will have very strong teams. If Washington goes down Russia will have a dream team again.

Russia was a lot sharper until the third period where Sweden staged a great comeback in the third period. They were closed to tying the game until Aleksander Radulov outmaneuvred Lars Jonsson behind the Swedish net and then made another smart move by turning 270 degrees while firing a hard shot, 5-3. Russia quickly scored another, and then the game was effectively over.

In total, Russia won 10 games out of 12 in the 2008-09 Euro Hockey Tour; I believe only Canada can stop them from winning the gold again.

Further addition a cheap goal against Stefan Liv behind Swedens posts, both 5 and 6-3 was to cheap